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Pretty Baby

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17 August 2023
272 pages
9781804440643
Imprint: Footnote Press

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A muscular, canny memoir about labor and power and gender... I couldn't put it down. What a fucking gorgeous book
Absolutely not to be missed
Chris Belcher's entertaining debut recounts how a West Virginia adolescent who read Foucault and Derrida went on to become 'L.A.'s renowned lesbian dominatrix.' Her work is as much about money and financial precarity as it is about sex and sexuality. . . Juggling her careers in sex work and academia, the author lays bare the soul-crushing difference in pay
In a lucid examination of power, sexuality, and class, Belcher tells a gripping story about the performance of identity, inside and outside of the dungeon. . . A discerning memoir